Eight years after the invasion of Iraq, which was prompted at least in part by Bush Administration claims that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the 9-11 terrorist attacks, how do Iraqis feel about al-Qaeda – and about America? For the Iraqi newspaper Sotal Iraq, columnist Rageb Al-Rakabi writes that Iraqis firmly reject the terror group and its plots to attack the United States. For Sotal Iraq,...

I hope that many of our readers had the opportunity to watch the moving White House ceremony for the presentation of the Medal of Honor to Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer. According to one reader, the view here at TMV was “[b]etter than TV by a ton.” Above a White House photo of Dakota Meyer having a beer with the President yesterday at a White House patio. The Marine hero had asked the President...

Today a former US Marine will join a rare group of living Medal of Honor winners. I don’t think I could do a better job than the Marine Corps Times did in spelling out his heroism so I’ll let it stand on its own. (note that the article was written before the award became official, which is why he is refered to as nominee) He may not think he deserves the award but as far as I am concerned he’s...

UPDATE II Hopefully this link will take readers to a live-streaming of the MOH award ceremony: JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV ===== Sometimes the most difficult part of writing and publishing an article or essay is picking the title. When, about one month ago, I first heard that Marine Sergeant Dakota L. Meyer, a former Austin resident, would be receiving the Medal of Honor for heroism in Afghanistan,...

Is it just a myth that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks badly damaged the American economy? According to columnist Thomas Fricke of the Financial Times Deutschland, the wars of vengeance launched by George W. Bush and the nearly catastrophic economic crash at the end of his term caused far more damage than Osama bin Laden ever dreamed of.` For the Financial Times Deutschland, Thomas Fricke writes in...

The weekend was spent mourning almost 3000 Americans who were killed on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that day, more than 6200 have died in Iraq and Afghanistan with the toll still rising. The 9/11 dead were victims of a vicious attack on American civilization. Those since then were put in harm’s way by the conscious decision of our political and military leaders. During all the speeches and commemorations...

Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy.  In practice, it is a country’s advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one’s own country as superior to others – an extreme...

Since 9-11, it seems that the American Left and the American Right have agreed on something of profound importance: we’re scared. The politics of the last decade have been the politics of fear. Because of fear that one of us is a terrorist, we’ve allowed our intelligence services to listen into our private conversations; because of fear of terrorists from abroad, we have killed innocent people...

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The commemoration of the tenth anniversary has become the world’s largest blog essay contest, and, while I cannot hope to succeed in such an outpouring of virtual (and actual) ink, I will say this:

What have we sacrificed in the process of pursuing the ‘War on Terror’? Continuing with our global coverage of the 9-11 anniversary, in this moving article from Sweden’s Sydsvenskan, columnist Heidi Avellan writes that no matter how hard it may be, hatred must be met with love, and our principles mustn’t be sacrificed in the pursuit of vengeance. For Sweden’s Sydsvenskan, Heidi...

Today we continue our coverage of the global outpouring in regard to the September 11 anniversary. This article is one of the dozens of stories posted on Worldmeets.US since yesterday. The funk the United States is currently in is of great concern to U.S. allies like Japan, who depend on American influence for their own security and prosperity. This editorial from Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun illustrates the...

Here’s the live video feed from MSNBC of the ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

While I have referred to the attacks of 9/11 as an intelligence failure that’s not exactly true.  In realty the Bush/Cheney administration ignored intelligence.  This is from an intelligence briefing given to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001. Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S....

Our post of the day comes from Daryl Cagle, who has a collection of cartoonists looking back on 911 plus their remembrances. Here’s the first one part (it’s a long post): Cartoonists Look Back At 9/11 by Daryl Cagle It’s an understatement to say that the events of September 11 will forever be etched in the minds of millions of Americans. As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of that tragic day,...

9/11 And Its Great Transformations by Cliff Schecter On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I was working on an election campaign – it was primary day in New York – and little did I realize that politics,...

UPDATE: The BBC reports that Saadi Qaddafi, one of Col. Qaddafi’s sons has arrived in neighboring Niger: Niger’s government spokesman and Justice Minister Marou Amadou said Saadi Gaddafi was in a convoy along with eight others. Mr Amadou said the convoy was on its way to Agadez in northern Niger and that Saadi and his companions were being allowed in on humanitarian grounds. Col. Qaddafi’s whereabouts...

Did the post-9/11 decade make us stronger? GO HERE for a great roundup.

A new NBC report seemingly brings to reality a development terrorism experts have long warned could be coming: it turns out that two of the three suspects sought in a 911 terror anniversary plot could be Americans: Update 6:40 p.m. ET: NBC’s Pete Williams, citing several U.S. officials, reports that there’s been no major progress in the attempt to run down the intelligence warning of possible car...

At a time when America appears lost, and its leadership continues its reckless bid for global supremacy, it is interesting to recall the story of the only American who participated in India’s freedom struggle and was imprisoned by the British-Indian government. He gave up Western clothes and donned home-spun Khadi dress. A highly impressed Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his Young India: “No Indian is giving...

Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner

The big news is the feds looking into a “credible threat” of a terrorist plot involving New York City and Washington DC to mark the 10th anniversary of 911 — but The Daily Beast’s John Avlon notes that there is a more reassuring context: since 2001 47 jihadist terrorist plots have been thwarted: As news of a new “credible” threat swept across the nation on the 10th anniversary of...

I used to think that “history is what it was” but that really isn’t true. History is what it is, and that “is” is eternally in flux. One of the most popular images of “Custer’s Last Stand” It hung in bars and saloons across Budweiser’s distribution  network Let me give you the most obvious example: when I was a kid, Col. George Armstrong Custer was a venerable...

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the need for us, Americans, on this 10th anniversary of 9/11, to recommit ourselves to strengthening and bonding our nation from within… An Army chaplain, Major James Key, conducted his final funeral at Arlington National Cemetery a few weeks ago for an active duty soldier who died in combat while serving in Afghanistan. As his eyes “scanned the hallowed stones and...

New 911 recordings have been released with the voices of air traffic controlers, a doomed stewardess on one of the flights — and even one of the hijackers: